Work; Objects; Knowledge of the land/water and environment; Migration/settlement

Morley Coles points out his family home, floated over from Change Island in 1947, before Joey Smallwood's resettlement program. The stage was floated over from Blacky Cove which is around the bay from Deep Bay. A store was also brought, but it is...

Brown, Ida and Silk, Hiram. Interview about her family, moving from St. John's to Grand Falls, going to school, and living in Grand Falls. Ida Brown discusses moving to Grand Falls-Windsor, her family, her father’s work as a brassmoulder,...

Blackmore, Walwin Mayor. Interview about moving to Windsor for a teaching job and mining on Bell Island. Walwin Blackmore discusses his family’s history, mining on Bell Island and the closure of the mines, his education, teaching, school system...

Blackmore, Walter. Interview about moving from Glenwood to Grand Falls, his jobs, and starting the Grand Falls Advertiser. Walter Blackmore discusses his family, his father’s work, school in Grand Falls, his work, his sibling’s work, starting...

Noftall, Ethel. Interview about moving from England to Newfoundland, World War Two, and difference between England and Newfoundland. Ethel Noftall discusses growing up in England, working at a pub, working in an explosives factory during World...

Parsons, Maxwell and Parsons, Geraldine. Interview about working in the mill, politics of Grand Falls-Windsor, and their family. Maxwell Parsons discusses moving to Grand Falls-Windsor, growing up in the community, working in the mill, community...

Rodgers, Anthony. Interview about moving to Grand Falls, going to school, and working with AND company and Brookfield. Anthony Rodgers discusses moving to Grand Falls, working in Grand Falls in the mill, in the lumberwoods, with Brookfield,...

Bill Godwin discusses fishing and fish splitting and salting as it was done in the past on Barr'd Islands; discusses working on the flakes, drying and salting fish; the role of women in the work; the need to bring fresh water from Joe Batt's Arm. ...

Standing at the end of the Coles stage, waiting for mackerel to come in to the shore with Morley Coles and Aubrey Waterman. Mackerel do not usually come in but have been for the past two years, the first time this has occurred in eight to ten years.

Work; Objects; Knowledge of the land/water and environment; Migration/settlement

Morley Coles and Aubrey Waterman look at the floor boards inside Coles' stage. The floorboards are the original ones, which never rot as they are pickled by the salt. There is a lot of rust from the nails.

Work; Objects; Knowledge of the land/water and environment; Migration/settlement

Morley Coles gives a tour of the stage. A hole in the floor is for drawing water. There is a lot of splatter from fish guts from the splitting table, which was not painted because the paint would come off on the fish. At one time five people fished...

Work; Objects; Knowledge of the land/water and environment; Migration/settlement

Discussion of the changes the community of Deep Bay has seen. Morley Coles and Aubrey Waterman say that the current total population is approximately 100-130 people; when they were growing up it was close to 300, with households of eight to ten...

Work; Objects; Knowledge of the land/water and environment; Migration/settlement

Morley Coles and Aubrey Waterman talk about the resettlement in the 1960s of Offer Island and Nippard Island, both of which are in the entrance to Deep Bay. Aubrey's mother is from Offer Island, where there was a herring factory. Once both islands...